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Take the channel out. remove the cap from the poti and try Craig Fader spray from both sides. Also try a hairdryer or make it warm (not hot!) If it moves, turn it 20 times and spray 1-2 times more. We also use some DRY air from a compressor to blow the debris out afterwards. Good luck!
So Natural and like @ingoodmusic said Cathedral-like/Hall-esque not noisey more lifelike than what I think of a Plate EMT140(I'll I have tried is Soundtoys Superplate)...Used UA's BX20 plugin....not shabby, but not quite as real as the real thing......Cool demo and track....loved when the Pandeiro came in...very cool sounding!
that telefunken doesent look a tiny bit like the ones that i have, marked telefunken and not ANT, and they have modular circuitry+ green transformers. what version is this?
ANT is the successor company to the Telefunken Pro Audio division after the group was dissolved. The same employees continued to build exactly the same devices at the same location under the new name until ANT closed its doors in the mid-1980s. There were many versions of the Telefunken V672. The version with the green transformers is an early form that was later replaced by the V672/2 with the typical Mu-Metal encapsulated round Haufe transformers. The ANT V672 card is this version.
If your mixer worked in a studio, like mine (169 ), you will be shocked to see what it is under the connectors on the main board(s), i desoldered all the connectors , i cleaned them in the ultrasound bath and i cleaned also the horrible oxidation of old coffee, water, cola (or beer?) for maybe 30 years under the connectors and on the metal back cover. I strongly advise this to anyone want to restore a 169/269, even it is a huge work….
So true. People tent to forget that there was excessive smoking everywhere until the mid-1990s. Smoking ban in the studio? No way! How are you supposed to work creatively? :-) Times are changing. Lol. The dirty layer of smear that the nicotine left behind was death for the faders and pots. At some point I removed the faders from our old SSL 4000 and vacuumed everything down below. Yep... At least one ashtray filling on 56 faders! Be sure to clean the circuit boards!🤢
We build custom mixers at vintagetools, but they are not cheap. The API format is cool, because all modules share one pinout, but the build quality of the vintage german stuff is another league.
Thanks for your feedback. Yes, this reverb device can only do one sound in short or long, but this sound is beautiful. I love devices that are like that.
doing same restoration now bought broken 269 problem was psu also a lot of capacitors are short circuited fixed the psu now slowly module by module fixing one thing after another do you change all capacitors or only electrolytics regards
If anyone knows more about these compressors, please post here! Unfortunately, there is hardly anything to be found about Polygram Pro Audio Equipment anyway.
lucky enough to have two in my possession, family friend is letting me have a look and try them out to see if i can invest. currently troubleshooting. any recommendations on how to properly diagnose any issues? or frankly even get a signal from the unit after powering it on?
Hi Daniel, If you get no signal at all, it is best to first check whether the power supply is supplying all voltages. If it does you can connect the audio I/O´s and follow all signals. In other words make a complete audio test with all the in and outputs such as Mic-Line in, master out, control room out, auxes, etc. If you need to repair stuff, do the same with an oscilloscope. Always just follow the signal and repair one fault after the other. At the end, if everything works well and sounds good, you can do tests with a measuring system such as the audio precision or any other. Good luck!
Sounds great. The bypassed signal sounds great too. What's the signal chain? Also, why does analog gear (especially tubes) sound so good, even after converted to digital? Things "harmonic distortion" are the only answers I've heard, but doesn't get to the human aspect of it.
We often ponder this question, and the best answer I can offer is that sound arises from imperfection. If we consider that a significant portion of the distinct sound of musical instruments originates from their attack phase, and then compare a simple sine wave to the sound of a real instrument, we observe numerous imperfect notches and, most importantly, fluctuations within the waveform. It is within these imperfections that the essence of sound resides. Life itself is a symphony of vibrations!
Thanks for the tips. I am cleaning the faders of my 963 and they're very dirty. I am using isopropyl spray with qtips of various sizes. The most sensitive is the fader tracks and the fingers. Then i use a tiny drop of ptfe oil to lube the guides. Those little metal paper condensers on the pcb that you show are prone to explode!
Dauert schon ein paar Tage, wenn man es so gründlich macht. Kommt immer drauf an was im Laufe der Überholung so ans Licht kommt. Abgerissene Leiterbahnen reparieren, versteckte Fehler finden und reparieren, usw.
I worked with this console for 6 years in a basement studio in Soho. I still remember the day it arrived, brand new from the factory. We bought that and replaced a souncraft 24 track with an MTR90. happy days !
Hi Robert. In the so called Braunbuch the indicator W stands for: resistors, faders, filters and equalizers, while V stands for Verstärker (= amplifier)
I'll eventually buy one to try. These refurbished cards (vt672), you think they will last forever? Under good care? How does this compare to it's tube brethren v72. You said they are equal to hiend pres like 1073? Is the sound more open?
Nothing lasts forever, but some of the stuff built in the 1950´s still works without a recap and todays caps are much better, so I guess they will work until we retire... :-)
@@ottomanmuzic5744 It depends on how god the modification is done. We reach the 60dB of gain without changing the overall frequency response. If you do it wrong you´ll cut of a lot of the high frequencies. Of cause more gain also raises the noise level, but that´s with al preamps. THD+N is fine with the VT672 and it sounds great. If you are looking for a cleaner and brighter preamp, the VT976 fits better. :-)
Thanks for your comment. I recorded this voiceover with a U87, a VT900 STUDER channel and a Urei 1178, BUT it is also heavily compressed with two plugins. I think I need to upload some sound files of all the gear one day, even though I think the sound depends so much on the voice, mic, comp, postproduction, that it will not really be a "scientific" example.
Anyone who gets interested in a rack for a V-series pre-amp. usually knows what he is looking for. At this place he meets the guys who know what they are doing. This is a rare find, people at vintagetools take the nice old stuff from the good old tube-age, unsurpassed by new stuff, offer to service them at reasonable costs and offer a serious rack to get them in: a housing in vintage Telefunken-grey which suits 100% the compact design of the V72 and it's colleagues. About the V72 you can get some statements on the gearslutz page, one of the most serious forums online: www.gearslutz.com/board/high-end/1237476-what-your-absolute-favorite-tube-mic-pre.html?highlight=v72#post13625267 If you are looking for a really good mic, then call Echoschall in Berlin. Look for some nice handbag as a present for your wife, then take the train to Berlin. Here you can find what may suit you, some Neumann U67, new, or Voxorama U47 / U49 by Andreas Grosser... To make the chain perfect, you sould get a V72 in line, and for vocals that's it. After all this, you needed to talk either to your parents or to your bank, or both of them - if they still want to talk with you . . . Matthias
5 лет назад
Mach doch mal bitte einen talk mit Andreas Balaskas auf seinem Kanal! Das wäre der Hammer!
